Shana Lee, Kent State University’s Assistant Dean of Students, has been selected to serve as a member of the Association of Higher Education Parent Program Professionals (AHEPPP) Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion (DEAI) Task Force. AHEPPP is the premier national association for higher education professionals who work with parents and family members of college students. Lee, who currently oversees engagement of Kent State’s parents and families, spent 26 years working with the university’s underrepresented students as Director of the Student Multicultural Center and later the Division...
Black History Month — or National African American History Month — is an annual celebration of achievements by Black Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S history. The Association for the Study of Negro Life initiated the first variation of Black History month with Negro History Week in 1926. In 1970, according to the Kent Stater, Kent State University began the observance of Black History Month. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. Join us for special Black History Month virtual ...
Their Story I was moving into Tri Towers in August 1987 for Freshman week and my first year at Kent. My major was Flight Technology. I was in my room putting things away when my mom came up with more items and along with her was Scott, a Junior Flight Technology major and brand new Flight Instructor, helping to bring some of my items. He was a KIC Greeter helping people move in. It was at this time that we discovered that we were both Flight majors. And would subsequently discover that he was also going to be the instructor of my University Orientation class! We started going out about a mont...
Honors College alumna Jessica Maisano, ’94, B.A., started her career at Kent State as a fashion merchandising student before realizing her passion for dinosaurs and dirt was a viable career option. One Kent State professor would show Maisano that childhood dreams are actually within reach. In her junior year, Maisano wrote a term paper about what killed the dinosaurs for her earth history course taught by Don Palmer, now Professor Emeritus of Geology. “I always wanted to be a paleontologist, like every child in the world,” Maisano said. “Most people outgrow that, and those of us who are pale...
Their Story Darcy and I met in the MACC Annex in August 1998, I was an incoming graduate assistant for Intramural Sports and she was an undergraduate student working for Recreational Services. We started dating in September 1998. We have two wonderful boys and built our life at Kent State where I started working full-time for Recreational Services after graduation in May 2000. We are coming up on our twentieth wedding anniversary this June. The Proposal and Marriage Our first trip to visit my family in Pensacola, Florida in May 1999. She was asleep the day after we arrived because of ...
The Hearst Journalism Awards — widely known as the Pulitzer Prizes of Collegiate Journalism — recently recognized Kent State senior Gianna DaPra in the nation’s top 10 for television features. DaPra, a journalism major in the School of Media and Journalism, earned 10th place recognition for two stories she worked on from 2019-2020: Makeup Madhouse — a story about a local makeup guru — was created for her Advanced Broadcast Reporting class. Kent Car Care Clinic — which she shot, wrote and edited all in one day — was created for TV2, Kent State’s independent televi...
Their Story I met my husband fall 1992. We both lived in Terrace Hall. (Which isn’t even a dorm anymore!) I am a 1997 graduate of the KSU BSN program. We married the fall of 1997. I am proud to say my youngest has been taking college credit courses her junior and senior year of high school at KSU Stark. She will be attending KSU main campus this fall to pursue her degree in Psychology with a minor in Forensic Anthropology. I am so excited for her to have an amazing experience at Kent! The Proposal and Marriage We got engaged while I was in nursing school, but waited to get married unt...
Their Story We met at Ray’s via a mutual friend in 1989. We began dating within the month. We both graduated from Kent main campus with degrees in Education. I am in my 30th year as a 4th grade teacher. Brad is in his 29th year as a high school Social Studies teacher. We were married in October of 1993, 4 1/2 years after we met. . We have 2 children. Zack, 24, who is a recent graduate of Ohio University, and Bailey, 21, who is a Junior at Kent State! They were both raised taking trips to Kent each year for Homecoming, alumni activities, football or basketball games, or just because! We are AL...
The Performing Arts Center will host two virtual programs for students over the next two months. Wings of Courage and Full STEAM Ahead with Mister C will be presented in a digital format with an accompanying virtually live Q&A session with the program’s creators. According to David Mitchell, general manager of the Performing Arts Center, “In a typical year, we reach over 7,000 students who visit us for educational programing through our Class Acts Series. While we are unable to create those live experiences for students this year at the Performing Arts Center, it is very important to us...
Each semester, the School of Theatre and Dance's Black Box Series presents a collection of student produced works. These productions are provide students with opportunities to direct, write, perform, stage manage, and design existing and original works in a laboratory environment. Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the 2020-2021 Black Box Series is being presented virtually. On January 29 and 30, 2021, the Black Box Series will present a pre-recorded prduction of Lauren Gunderson's Natural Shocks. Directed by School of Theatre and Dance student Erin Ripley, Natura...